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A Bespoke Suit of Carbon and Steel: Wearable Robotic Exoskeletons Help...
SuitX, a company in California, has built a robotic exoskeleton that weighs just 27 pounds and allows wearers to cover a mile in an hour—a 4-minute mile pace for such machines. As futuristic as the...
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Kevin Moss and Debora Frodl: Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water...
The water-energy nexus presents a growing challenge for many parts of the world. We need collaboration among the public and private sector to come up with creative solutions to resource scarcity. Few...
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Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?
The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to “turn off the damn lights” and filling stations dispensed...
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Chris Heathcote: How Better Data Can Help Address the Global infrastructure Gap
To attract the trillions of dollars needed in infrastructure investment to fuel global growth and create jobs, we need better information about what’s working and why. There are many varying estimates...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots from their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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As Right As Rain: This Funny Weather App Will Light Up Your Day
Many clouds have a silver lining. Poncho, the irreverent weather app from Betaworks, just teamed up with GE to help you find it. “Our thesis is that people don’t necessarily want to know what the...
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Follow The Digital Thread: How GE’s Off To See Profit In The Age Of Cheap Oil
Over the last several decades, companies have used tools like Six Sigma and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to squeeze the most out of their factories. But in hard times that may not be...
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This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source...
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with...
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Christine Todd Whitman: What Clean Energy Source Can Outshine Solar and Blow...
Overlooking nuclear energy as part of America’s clean energy strategy would be tantamount to unilateral disarmament. Clean, green and reliable — these should be the core elements of our nation’s energy...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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Engine With 3D-Printed Parts Powers 3 Next-Gen Jets
The Airbus A321neo passenger plane has become the third next-generation aircraft to complete a maiden flight with LEAP engines on wing. The LEAP is the first engine that includes both 3D-printed parts...
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This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source...
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with...
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Hello, Is Anybody Out There? Scientists Make The Berlin Wall Talk
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a steel foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the...
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Don’t Try This At Home: How To Catch A Lightning In A Bottle
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things.But then, he never had the...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A number of people, including reportedly Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams, have had their corpses frozen in the hope that they can be revived in the future. This process, called cryopreservation,...
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Ajay Banga: Why It’s Possible to Innovate Without Sacrificing Data Privacy...
Data privacy and security don’t have come at the expense of innovation or economic growth — they’re instrumental in driving both. How can we maximize the good that can come from the responsible use of...
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Before The Grammys: How Thomas Edison Started The Music Industry
Thomas Edison lost much of his hearing when he was still a child. “I have not heard a bird sing since I was 12 years old,” he once remarked. But that did not stop him from inventing the phonograph in...
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A Snowball’s Chance In Hell? You Can Bet On It!
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the...
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Don’t You Want Me, Baby? This Brain Imaging Contest Can Show You the Love
How deep is your love? Stanford neuroscientist Melina Uncapher has a system in her lab that can supply the answer.In 2013, Dr. Uncapher and her friend the filmmaker Brent Hoff invited seven men and...
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Mark Muro, Kelly Kline and Bruce Katz: Software Eats Manufacturing (and...
The digitization of manufacturing is transforming entire industries. Here are five takeaways from a workshop on how U.S. regional economies can support the development of an ecosystem that brings...
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